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CHRONOLOGY


1865.  April 15. Lands in Boston. Becomes Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune.
1866. January 3. Marries Fanny Garrison. — To Europe in July, as correspondent of the New York Tribune in the Franco-Prussian War. Winter in Munich.
1867. In March to Paris as correspondent of the Chicago Tribune at the World's Fair.
1868-70. Home in Boston. — Secretary of the American Social Science Association.
1870-71. To Germany, with mortgage-bank plan.
1871-72. First employment as expert in American railroad affairs.
1872-73. Serious illness in Heidelberg.
1873. Joins committees of bondholders of Oregon & California R. R. Co. and of Kansas Pacific R. R. Co.
1874. Their delegate to the United States.
1875. Opens Oregon immigration bureau in New York.
1876. First visit to Oregon. — President of Oregon & California R. R. Co. and of Oregon Steamship Co. — A receiver of the Kansas Pacific.
1877. Desperate illness in San Francisco.
1878. Dislodged by Jay Gould from Kansas Pacific receivership.
1879. Victorious over Gould. — Buys out creditors of the Oregon Steamship Co. and the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. — Conceives the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.
1880. Contract for division of traffic with Northern Pacific R. R. Co. — Founds Oregon Improvement Co. — Buys the two Oregon railroads.
1881. Gains control of the Northern Pacific R. R. by the “blind pool.” — Elected its president, and founds the Oregon & Transcontinental Co. — Buys the New York Evening Post and Nation.
1882-83. Extends the main line of Northern Pacific and builds branches.
1883. Organizes St. Paul & Northern Pacific Co. — Builds St. Paul & Manitoba R. R. — Procures the writing of a ‘History of the Northern Pacific Railroad.’ — Leads international excursion to witness completion of the Northern Pacific. — Involved in collapse of the road. — Resigns presidency of the Oregon & Transcontinental, Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., and Northern Pacific.
1884-86. To Germany.
1885. Resigns presidency of the Oregon & California R. R.
1886. To New York as representative of the Deutsche Bank. — Saves the Oregon & Transcontinental.
1887-88. Re-enters the Northern Pacific board.
1889. Founds Edison General Electric Co. — Final retirement from Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. — Chairman of finance committee of the Northern Pacific.
1890. Founds the North American Co. to absorb the Oregon & Trans-